Trevelyon's Gold Cap Finished

Firstly, thank you all for your supportive emails and comments after my last post! And now, back to embroidery!At the end of October I finished the single panel of Trevelyon's Gold Cap. The border was relatively quick with only chip work for the acorns and some couched threads for the vine. Then I had to decide what I was going to do next.Originally, I thought I'd embroider the other three sides and assemble a three dimensional cap. However, that isn't possible this year given my limited ability to embroider anything challenging for a while. The new plan is to mount it on an embroidered background and then have it framed.The piece looked a bit unfinished, so I decided to outline the panel with Grecian twist and black and gold twist. This gives it a more finished look and defines the shape of the panel, which is important for mounting the piece.Usually when a piece of embroidery is mounted and framed, the background is simple: perhaps a plain piece of linen or silk on a board or a piece of mat board. In this case I want the background to carry through the richness of the piece itself.If you've been reading my blog for a while you'll remember when I did vermicelli couching on the Loveday piece by Nicola Jarvis last year. I fell in love with that technique and the wonderful texture it gives to a piece of fabric. I think vermicelli couching using the same black and gold twist I've used on the cap applied to black silk will look absolutely fabulous!The plan is to draw an outline of the cap on the black silk and then apply the vermicelli couching from the outside edge of the outline all the way to the edges of the black silk. I'll then mount the cap panel on a piece of board that's cut to the shape of the panel. That will be applied to the top of the black silk fabric with the vermicelli couching. Then the whole thing will be framed. Of course, this means I have to mount two different pieces of embroidery and you all know how much I love (not!) mounting!What do you think? Will this set off the piece or detract from it? I'm interested in your opinion!